For the Second leg at Filbert Street Stoke manager Tony Waddington had to change his goalkeeper with Leslie out with an ankle injury Bobby Irvine taking his place.[1] He was unable to prevent Mike Stringfellow from scoring after six minutes following a defensive error.[1] Stoke hit back and a perfect pass from Jimmy McIlroy cut through the "Foxes" defence and Dennis Viollet levelled the scores.[1] This put Stoke into the ascendency but then a nasty leg injury to Calvin Palmer saw him stretched off and thus put Stoke down to 10 men.[1] Leicester capitalised on the situation and before Palmer was able to get back on the pitch Gibson headed in a Howard Riley corner.[1] With not long left Stoke pushed forward and left a too big a gap in defence and Dave Gibson made it 3–1.[1] Stoke to their credit fought on and pulled one back through George Kinnell but it was too late as Leicester won the tie 3–2 giving them a 4–3 aggregate win and with it the League Cup.[1]